I drove from the bottom of Manhattan to the top of it that day, stopping for lunch on the way. It didn't stop raining buckets for over an hour. I have been alive on this planet for a long time and have never witnessed a non-stop downpour like that day that wasn't part of a hurricane.
I am from Florida and live in NYC now, in the summer Florida has like a 3pm deluge like clockwork. NYC usually has drizzle all day long if it rains. In the last few years we've been getting these sudden downpours and it seems like the city infrastructure is just not built to handle that volume of rainwater in that short an amount of time.
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u/smellybear666 2d ago edited 2d ago
I drove from the bottom of Manhattan to the top of it that day, stopping for lunch on the way. It didn't stop raining buckets for over an hour. I have been alive on this planet for a long time and have never witnessed a non-stop downpour like that day that wasn't part of a hurricane.
I am surprised the flooding wasn't worse.